Will Arhive Redo Log be generated by the INSERT /*+ APPEND */ Command if = the Target Table has been PRE-Created with NOLOGGING? Any possibility of giving Hint for NOLOGGING in the INSERT Command ? -----Original Message----- From: VIVEK_SHARMA=20 Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 3:31 PM To: 'oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx' Subject: Cloning 21 GB Table - Review Approach please We are to clone a 32Million records table of approx 21GB in the same DB. =A0 We are considering the following approach:- MULTIPLE statements INSERT /*+ APPEND */ INTO <Target Table> SELECT ... = FROM <Source Table> WHERE Suitable Condition ..... to be executed. Num of concurrent (parallel) executions to depend on the Machine config = (Num of CPUs & nature of Storage Box) /*+ APPEND */ Hint causes a Block wise(NOT row-wise) Load into the = Target table provided NO indexes exist on it. (Oracle 9.2 version much faster for such loads than Oracle 8i) =A0 OPTIMIZATION PREPERATION=20 Suitable partitioning for the target table=20 Partitions to be Located in different Tablespaces Tablespaces to be LMTs =A0 Existence of any suitable indexes on Source Table for faster Selection = of records therefrom. =A0 Database Init.ora params to be optimized OS parameters to be optimized=20 =A0 -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l